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When I first encountered WPF I was really impressed by its styling and templating features which are more powerful than anything else I had previously seen for desktop software development.
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The ability to allow a user to save a Flex chart, or in fact any Flex UI component, as an image has popped up on my radar several times over the last few years.
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In my previous post I demonstrated how an the WPF ElementName style binding can be emulated with Silverlight via an attached behaviour.
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As a relative newcomer to Silverlight I was happily greeted by the warm feeling of familiarity when I started developing.
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OK, the title of this blog post is not very snappy, but it is not an easy problem to describe in a few short words.
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Provides a collection of practical examples for the then-newly released WPF DataGrid control, covering common scenarios including binding to datasets, custom column types, row validation, editing, and styling. Written when documentation was scarce, it serves as a hands-on guide for developers adopting the WPF Toolkit DataGrid.
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Over the weekend Sacha published a new article on codeproject, Total View Validation (does Sacha ever sleep?).
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In my recent codeproject article on the DataGrid I described a number of techniques for handling the updates to DataTables which are bound to the grid.
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I have answered a few forum posts about the WPF transforms recently, mostly regarding confusion between RenderTransform and LayoutTransform.
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The WPF DataGrid is a very flexible tool, however in its current state certain simple tasks can prove to be rather tricky.
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In a recent post on his blog Josh Smith described a technique for providing more meaningful error messages when the type conversion process fails within the binding framework.
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In my opinion the lack of decent design-time tool support is currently hampering the adoption of WPF, that and the relatively small number of controls available to the developer out-of-the-box.
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Welcome to my blog, Colin Eberhardt's Adventures in WPF. This page gives a little background on myself and the blog.
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A direct side-by-side comparison of building the same custom control — the Bullet Graph, a cleaner alternative to gauges for business dashboards — in both WPF and Windows Forms. The article highlights fundamental differences in the two programming models for control development in a Line of Business context.
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This article describes the development of a WPF pie chart control that fully supports data binding, allowing it to bind directly to your data objects rather than requiring a separate model. Along the way it covers custom shapes, dependency property inheritance, and the nuances of tooltips and data binding in WPF.
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Describes how to add Excel-style auto-filter functionality to the WPF ListView control, allowing users to filter rows via dropdown menus on each column header. The article covers the challenges of customising the ListView's complex visual tree and implementing filter logic with data binding.